如果我們對(duì)一個(gè)吸煙的人說(shuō)：吸煙會(huì)讓你短壽，他可能不會(huì)太在意，因?yàn)槔先ヒ院蟮氖虑樗坪鹾苓b遠(yuǎn)。可如果我們說(shuō)，你每吸一支煙，壽命就會(huì)縮短15分鐘，他可能會(huì)就會(huì)有點(diǎn)緊迫感了。把生命分成很小的計(jì)算單位來(lái)看，或許我們才會(huì)學(xué)會(huì)珍惜。

Dr. David Spiegelhalter, a statistician at the University of Cambridge, says that it’s not the occasional indulgence but consistent over-eating of certain foods that can impact your longevity. Calculating that the average life spans about 80 years, he divided that time up for adults 35 and older into nearly a million half hours, and assigned each 30 minute period to be 1 microlife. Each microlife is about one millionth of life expectancy after age 35.

劍橋大學(xué)統(tǒng)計(jì)學(xué)家大衛(wèi)?斯皮格爾特博士表示，真正影響你長(zhǎng)壽的不是偶爾過(guò)量食用某些食物，而是長(zhǎng)期過(guò)量食用。在預(yù)計(jì)平均壽命約為80歲的前提下，他把35歲及以上人群的余下壽命分成了約100萬(wàn)個(gè)30分鐘時(shí)間段，然后把每個(gè)30分鐘稱為一個(gè)“微生命”。也就是說(shuō)，35歲以后，每一個(gè)微生命就是你壽命的一百萬(wàn)分之一。

Smoking eats up approximately 10 microlives for every 20 cigarettes smoked — or about 15 fewer minutes of life expectancy per cigarette.

吸煙時(shí)，每吸20支煙就會(huì)大概消耗10個(gè)微生命；或者說(shuō)，每支煙會(huì)讓壽命減少15分鐘。

Averaged over a lifetime, the following habits are linked to the loss of one microlife: smoking two cigarettes, eating a burger, being roughly 11 pounds overweight, chugging a second or third alcoholic beverage, and watching two hours of television.

按一生的平均水平來(lái)算，以下行為會(huì)導(dǎo)致一個(gè)微生命的喪失：吸兩支煙，吃一個(gè)漢堡，超重11磅，喝下第二或第三杯酒飲，以及看兩小時(shí)電視。

On the positive side, behaviors that can add half hours of life expectancy include: drinking 2-3 cups of coffee or taking statins, cholesterol-lowering drugs (one microlife), eating fruits and vegetables (four microlives), and working out 20 minutes per day (two microlives). (Source: time.com)

從另一方面來(lái)看，能夠幫助增加微生命的行為有：喝2到3杯咖啡或吃降低膽固醇的他汀類藥物（1個(gè)微生命），吃水果蔬菜（4個(gè)微生命），每天鍛煉20分鐘（2個(gè)微生命）。

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